Dr. Carmody's Biography — Dr. Carmody, an abdominal transplant surgeon, earned his medical degree from the University of Toronto. Following graduation, he stayed at the University of Toronto to complete his internship and residency. He completed a fellowship in abdominal organ transplantation at UCLA. His areas of special interest include liver, kidney transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. He has been on staff at Ochsner since 2005 and practices at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation Main Campus. Dr. Carmody is board certified by the American Board of Surgery.

Dr. Ahmed's Biography — Dr. Emily Ahmed completed her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan. She then went on to complete her residency in General Surgery at the University of Chicago. During her clinical training, she simultaneously earned her doctorate in immunology from the University of Chicago studying the role of bacterial infections in transplantation tolerance. Dr. Ahmed then went on to continue her clinical training in Abdominal Organ Transplantation, completing her fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Ahmed joined the Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute in August 2014 with an interest in liver, kidney and pancreas transplant as well as organ donation, including living donation. Her clinical research interests include health services research in abdominal transplantation. Specifically, she is interested in studying surgical practices and outcomes, trends in organ donation as well as strategies to maximize organ utilization. Her scientific research interests include the study of how innate immunologic insults, such as infection, inflammation, and tissue damage can influence acute and chronic allograft rejection and fibrosis.

Dr. Opoku-Boateng's Biography — Dr. Opoku-Boateng attended Loma Linda University School of Medicine and completed her internship and residency at Ochsner Clinic Foundation. She then worked for several years as an acute care and general surgeon at Ochsner before completing a fellowship in endocrine surgery through a combined program through the Medical College of Wisconsin, Duke University and University of Wisconsin &mdash; Madison. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Southeastern Surgical Congress, the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, the American Medical Association and the California Medical Association. She is board-certified in Surgery.